| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 456 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Introduction (William R. Newman and Edith Dudley Sylla); Modes of Explanation in the Aristotelian Mechanical Problems (Jean De Groot); Structures of Argument and Concepts of Force in the Aristotelian Mechanical Problems (Mark Schiefsky); The Simple Ontology of Kalam Atomism: An Outline (A.I. Sabra); The Footprints of "Experiment" in Early Arabic Optics (Elaheh Kheirandish); The "Experience-Based Medicine" of the Thirteenth Century (Michael McVaugh); The Intellect Naturalized: Roger Bacon on the Existence of Corporeal Species within the Intellect(Yael Raizman-Kedar) |
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Magic and the Physical World in Thirteenth-Century Scholasticism (Steven P. Marrone)The Debate over the Nature of Motion: John Buridan, Nicole Oresme and Albert of Saxony. With an Edition of John Buridan's Quaestiones super libros Physicorum, secundum ultimam lecturam, Book III, q. 7; John Buridan and Critical Realism (Edith Dudley Sylla); The Significance of "Chymical Atomism" (William R. Newman); Conjecture, Probabilism, and Provisional Knowledge in Renaissance Meteorology (Craig Martin) |
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Setting up Copernicus? Astronomy and Natural Philosophy in Giambattista Capuano da Manfredonia's Expositio on the Sphere (Michael H. Shank)Copernicus's Mereological Vision of the Universe (André Goddu); From "Dragonology" to Meteorology: Aristotelian Natural Philosophy and the Beginning of the Decline of the Dragon in China (Qiong Zhang); Baroque Fire (A Note on Early-Modern Angelology) (Anne A. Davenport); Words, Lines, Diagrams, Images: Towards a History of Scientific Imagery (Christoph Lüthy and Alexis Smets); Index |
| Summary |
Containing sixteen essays and a substantial introduction by noted historians of premodern science, this book provides a fresh look at divergent yet complementary traditions of interpreting the natural world, ranging from Greek mechanics to early modern Chinese theories of dragons |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Science, Medieval.
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Medicine, Medieval.
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History, Medieval
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SCIENCE -- History.
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Medicine, Medieval
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Science, Medieval
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Naturwissenschaften
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Medizin
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Wissenschaftsgeschichte Fach
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Festschriften.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Murdoch, John Emery, 1927-2010.
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Sylla, Edith Dudley
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Newman, William R., 1955-
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| ISBN |
9789047441137 |
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9047441133 |
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